Monthly Archive: April 2012

This past week I continued to browse through the recently released 1940 census on Ancestry.com. This time I was looking for my husband’s side of the family. I found Joe’s mother Louise with her family right away. I knew they were probably living in Celina, Jefferson Township, Mercer County, Ohio, but I did not know …

I’m sure everyone knows by now that the 1940 US census was released this past Monday, 2 April. Many of us were eagerly awaiting that day but, as you probably also heard, things did not go as planned. There were over 22.5 million hits on the NARA website within three hours as people tried to …

This is the tombstone of Andreas Dietrich, located in row 4 of Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Schumm, Van Wert County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed: Andreas, son of J. and C. Dietrich, died 10 Oct 1846, aged 3 years, 6 months, 12 days. His death is the 5th death recorded in the Schumm church records: Andreas …

Karen Miller Bennett, CG(R)

Greetings from the Chattanooga, Ohio, area. "Chatt" is a small village in west-central Ohio, near the Indiana border. I am a Board-Certified genealogist, certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists®, as well as the registrar of the Lima Chapter NSDAR, and a past trustee, officer, and committee chair of The Ohio Genealogical Society. My main genealogical interests are family research, cemetery research, and historical research of the Chatt area, with a focus on Zion Lutheran Churches in Chatt and Schumm. Family names I am researching include Miller, Schumm, Brewster, Rueck, Reid, Headington, Huey, Bryan, Whiteman, Schinnerer, Scaer, Breuninger, Bennett, and a few others. I am also a Registered Dental Hygienist and church organist.